Fellow, Centre for Ethics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs, Spring 2005

Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 1989-94

Instructor, University College, 1991-94

Teaching Assistant, 1989-91

Specialties

Political philosophy; moral theory; applied ethics

Interests

Philosophies of patriotism and nationalism, philosophy of education, liberalism. Current research focuses on moral dilemmas, the problem of dirty hands in politics, and the general relationship between public and private morality within liberal democracies.

'A Philosopher on the Limits of Philosophy' (review of Michael Oakeshott's Morality and Politics in Modern Europe and Religion, Politics, and the Moral Life), in Commonweal CXXI, no. 8 (April 22, 1994), 21-2